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The Inspiration Issue 2020
In today's climate, now seems like the perfect time for The Hockey News' first Inspiration Issue. We've unearthed feel-good stories from around the hockey world, plus features on Leon Draisaitl, John Carlson and many more.
A CAUTIONARY TALE TO EMBRACE
WHEN THE Washington Capitals voided the contract of Brendan Leipsic after his private misogynistic messages to friends surfaced on Instagram, they effectively condemned a journeyman player who hadn’t scored a goal in four months and had been rendered redundant when the Capitals acquired 36-year-old Ilya Kovalchuk at the NHL trade deadline. Shake a tree hard enough in the Canadian prairies and a couple guys with Leipsic’s talent level drop to the ground. What would the Capitals have done, though, if it had been Alex Ovechkin or Nicklas Backstrom or John Carlson who were guilty of the same thing? Presumably, we’ll never have to find out. The moral compass doesn’t have to be beyond reproach to surpass a bar that low. If you’re a skeptic, you might think Leipsic was essentially kicked out…
COLBY CAVE: 1994-2020
FROM THE MOMENT HE met Colby Cave in 2011, Mark Lamb knew he had found a kindred spirit. Not as a hockey player, though. Lamb had already enjoyed a 400-game NHL career, and, truth be told, he was a much more talented player than Colby Cave could ever hope to be. Where they found their commonality was in their backgrounds. Cave had grown up on a ranch in North Battleford, Sask., about four hours north of where Lamb and his family farmed in Ponteix, population 605. “We had a lot in common because I was brought up the same way,” said Lamb, who was coach-GM of the Swift Current Broncos, the WHL team for which Cave played for four seasons. “We used to make jokes about how we would try to…
HOLD OFF ON THE PRE-GAME MEAL
THE COVID-19 pandemic knocked the 2019-20 NHL season off-kilter and put players in the unusual situation of being quarantined at home when they’d ordinarily be playing games in a crucial stretch of the schedule. For injured players, it was a time to recover without missing action. For the rest of the league, it was a time of uncertainty and a strange break in routine: workouts limited to whatever was available at home and no skating at all. Depending on position and amount of ice time logged, a typical NHL player can burn between 2,800 and 4,000 calories in one game. An average man needs 2,500 calories a day to maintain a healthy diet. For players accustomed to a physical lifestyle, the quarantine has also had an effect on how they handle their…
The dark horses of Long Island
YOU WOULD THINK that college hockey writers would be ecstatic every time a new school decided to start a Div. I program. After all, it’s not something that happens every year. But a curious phenomenon occurred this spring when Long Island University announced it would be adding men’s hockey to its department: a lot of pundits turned into haters. Sure, the LIU Sharks will be attempting to put together a team for 2020-21 in breakneck time, having just months to find a coaching staff, players and opponents, but it’s hard to believe the school went into this blind. In fact, I know it didn’t, because athletic director Bill Martinov had already had discussions with former Notre Dame coaches Dave Poulin and Ric Schafer about his venture. Martinov spent more than a…
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